Announcing Your Engagement
If you are a stickler for tradition then etiquette requires your fiance to ask your parents for your hand in marriage.
For those who don't care for this tradition or are offended by it, then telling your parents together is perfectly acceptable.
Without question your parents should be the first to know about your impending nuptials. Restrain yourself from texting your friends the exciting news and don't let them hear about it from the receptionist at work congratulating them.
If either of you have children, then tell the kids before you tell other people. Families merging together can be a stressful thought regardless of how well they get along, even for the youngest of kids.
We don't recommend you bring up budgets, costs and who pays for what just yet. Give you parents time to breath and take in the good news. If they consider your news to be bad and your true love to be a true dud then consider eloping now.
After telling eachothers parents, now is the time for them to meet and get to know eachother if they don't already. You'll know whose parents should initiate contact. If you aren't sure then let tradition decide and suggest that the groom's parents call the bride's.
Engagement announcements and wedding announcements are still made in newspapers, although most brides today find Facebook is the easiest and fastest way to announce their engagement.
Editors Tip:
This is a very exciting time where emotions run high, don't start making promises about wearing Great Aunt Anne's wedding dress or let your excitement lend itself to promising 20 of your friends that they will be bridesmaids.
Give yourself a cooling off period to gather your thoughts and consider who you want involved in your wedding.
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